A questão da direção automotiva após a ingestão de bebida alcoólica: considerações sobre ações estatais de enfrentamento

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Andrea dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3154
• topic: Alcoholic beverage; Automotive direction; Car accident; Traffic education; Bebida alcohólica; Alcohol; Dirección automotriz; Accidente de tráfico; Redada; Educación para el tránsito; Direção automotiva; Blitz; Psicologia; Bebidas alcoólicas - Espírito Santo (Estado); Motoristas - Uso de álcool - Espírito Santo (Estado); Educação para segurança no trânsito; Políticas públicas - Espírito Santo (Estado); Álcool x Consumo; Álcool e juventude; Acidentes de trânsito; 159.9

In the psychological field of knowledge, Traffic Psychology is an area of professional specialization and recognized research. It was developed with primary focus on assessment of drivers, in a process involving marketing, social and scientific justifications. Questions risen by the growing complexity of conditions in which people live have generated new demands to be comprehended and faced in the fields of health, education, culture, social relations, and security. One of these questions addresses traffic accidents, which involve drivers of vehicles of all types, as well as adults and children as passengers or pedestrians. There are expressive evidences that driving after consumption of alcohol is associated with many accidents, which contributed to the aggregation of this problem to the Brazilian political agenda. Since 2 003, the state of Espírito Santo performs a set of enforcement and education actions to inhibit such practice, focusing on younger drivers. The present work focused on comprehending and analyzing the context of realizations and difficulties in which these governmental actions took place, according to the perception of interviewed people associated with this matter. The action program policymakers, action executors (military police-officers, Detran-ES technicians, and one commissioner), and young drivers were interviewed: twentyfive military police-officers, ten Detran-ES technicians who work in the program, sixty drivers with maximum age of 30years, three managers who took part on the formulation of the actions and one police commissioner. Results were organized and interpreted using content analysis, except for the narratives of military policeofficers, which were subjected to A lceste lexical analysis software. Results show that military police-officers, educators an d drivers perceive the results from the actions, as well as the difficulties faced, from different perspectives. Military policeofficers criticized operational aspects of enforcement actions and flaws and its legislation. Educators criticized the work conditions and the fact that their actions were not appreciated. Young drivers pointed excessive requirements in legislation, factors that should have been considered, and provide little indications of comprehension that they are in a context game in which the public and private aspect is essential. There is conformity in this picture regarding the insertions each group provided in the question, but still there were promising convergences. There was agreement regarding the proposition being well accepted by population. Evidences pointed that all admitted that driving under alcohol influence is an irresponsible act and they comprehend the risks involved. Participants in the three groups mentioned positive happenings regarding damage reduction.